Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the qualifications, South Africa's churches saw a clear threat to the right of the church to say where and how people may worship...
Said House Minority Leader Joe Martin last week to Speaker Sam Rayburn, "This is one issue where we see eye to eye." What the two House veterans saw was the Administration's $3.8 billion foreign-aid authorization bill finally emerging from committee. Slashed by $227 million in the Senate, the bill seemed likely to fare far worse in a House still riled by the Administration-and Supreme Court -decision to turn Army Specialist William Girard over to the Japanese for trial (TIME, July...
...what Colette called "conjugal courtesy" and likened to the Briton nightly donning his dinner jacket in "a lost corner of Nepal." When she deemed the time had come for "passionate love" to give place to "more lasting sentiments," she quietly but frankly informed him of the fact. Goudeket never saw her in the morning before she had done her face, and when the Gestapo came to their Paris flat in 1941 to take him away (he was a Jew), she merely tapped him lightly on the shoulder and said briskly: "Off you go." Goudeket returned from Compiegne detention camp...
Long before he ever saw her, Maurice Goudeket was determined to know the Colette behind the leafage. He first read a book of hers when he was 15 or 16, and she 31 or 32, and announced promptly: "I am going to marry that woman." In 1935, after ten years' intimate friendship with Colette, he did. Close to Colette has little to say about Colette's tempestuous youth, when she wrote her notorious Claudine books and danced with bared breast in a Paris revue. It is simply the story of her and Goudeket's 29 years together...
Running from the sound of the exploding grenade, Private Tamura felt a fragment rip his shoulder and saw the gouged chunk of his own flesh lying on the ground. He picked it up, wiped it clean and popped it into his mouth. He was that hungry and, besides, "There could certainly be nothing wrong in eating my own flesh...